Counterpropagating nondiffracting beams through reflection gratings
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 21, pp. 14163-14170 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.014163
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Abstract
We investigate the counterpropagation of paraxial nondiffracting optical beams through a medium hosting a bulk reflection grating in the quasi-Bragg matching condition. The impact of the relative magnitude of the Bragg detuning parameter and the grating depth on the plane wave dispersion relation allows us to identify three distinct regimes where counterpropagation and interaction of nondiffracting beams show qualitatively different features, encompassing longitudinally invariant, periodic or exponential intensity profiles. In one of the identified regimes the dispersion relation is not monotonic and the consequent “longitudinal degeneracy” allows the investigation of new class of nondiffracting beams characterized by a double spectral ring profile.
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OCIS Codes
(050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
(350.2770) Other areas of optics : Gratings
(350.7420) Other areas of optics : Waves
ToC Category:
Diffraction and Gratings
History
Original Manuscript: July 17, 2007
Revised Manuscript: August 20, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: August 20, 2007
Published: October 12, 2007
Citation
A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, E. DelRe, and E. Palange, "Counterpropagating nondiffracting beams through reflection gratings," Opt. Express 15, 14163-14170 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-21-14163
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